Wednesday October 5th 2022

Tweety, BSN, RN · Oct 5, 2022

Good morning!

Joe hope you don't have a crazy day and get help with the caseload.

Got up and mopped the floors and finished cleaning up the bathrooms that I started yesterday. Will do some meal planning for the next two days.

Talked to my father yesterday and he suggested I stay at a nearby hotel. Apparently mom now has a small hospital bed and he's in the spare bedroom and my sister has the other room. Seems weird to visit home and stay in a hotel but it beats sleeping on the couch or floor which I won't do if I have the means to do otherwise. Turning out to be an expensive trip between the flights, rental car and hotel. He didn't sound good and seemed depressed.

J22, hope you got some rest.

I just checked and my hand break is down ion my care but I think it used to be automatic for me as well and I might sometimes do it.

I enjoyed the movie "Bros" with best friend. I think it really is one that mostly gay men will like rather than straight people. It has some social commentary mixed in with the humor about how gay people have been treated over time and the poke fun at the ridiculous parts of gay culture. But overall a fun formulaic rom com.

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Oct 5, 2022

Joe, hope you have a good day.

Tweety, it sounds like your trip will be an important support to your family, and that can be anxiety-inducing. My family used to gather at my parents' house on holidays and my brother always wanted to rent a motel room. My parents put us up in a motel room once or twice, and same for my sister and her family. It can get expensive for sure.

I'm pretty sure our drivers' ED course taught us to use the hand brake but I never really developed the habit, even with the couple of vehicles we've had that had manual transmissions. I *have* been using it when parking our '95 Neon because something is going wrong with the transmission in that car and we do have a little incline and I would hate for that car to go rolling down the hill and hit who-knows-what. We really need to get rid of at least 3 cars, and that is one of them.

No Stars In My Eyes · Oct 5, 2022

Gouda Aftahnuen, yez-all---------------

Got up earlier than I have been, which is to say before noon! I woke Nannie up and made her get OOB so I could make sure she was washed and dressed and see if her bed was dry or wet.

I have a confession to make: after I washed and dried her bedding the day before yesterday, I actually put her wet-(in-a-one-foot-in-diameter-spot) sheets and blankets into the drier with three Gain dryer-sheets and set it on air-dry. I'll be "gosh-darned" if I'm going to wash her bedding every day or every-other day. Until I tackle the linen closets, which are an unholy mess, I won't know if she has another set of sheets that will fit her bed! Yet, I am not inclined to pull out all the linens and towels that have literally been shoved into/onto the shelves. And really, since we moved in, we haven't had any room in either closet for our sheets and towels, and hubby was always saying we needed to leave things the way she had them. But she never goes upstairs and seldom looks in her bathroom closet, sooooo, maybe one of these days I will get a wild hair and start pulling out piles of sheets and towels! Betcha there will be plenty to keep, and plenty to donate, use as cleaning rags, or just pitch out. Sometimes I get in those "throw out as much as possible" moods, y'know?

When I take my car to the dealership tomorrow, about the front tires, I am going to ask what some of those guys might say about setting the handbrake after parking. Just curious.

Nannie is sleeping in her recliner, hubby ran out to pick up a sandwich for himself (he who seldom eats lunch.) and then we can figure out something for a later than usual supper.

Hey, the Braves won the Eastern Division Title last night! Be that as it may, there is another baseball game twixt them and the Marlins again this afternoon. I don't understand why, but, oh well, a game is a game, so I just turned it on and it is in the bottom of the 2nd inning. Nannie tried to explain what was going on ... but it was so mixed up and 'far out' I can't even begin to set it down here for y'all to read and wonder over. You'll just have to take my word for it....she points at the TV and says, "they keep changing people around", and stutters and tries to finish her 'thought', but comes limping in verbally and her 'sentences' fizzle out, so we just say "Yes." ...? and try to disengage so she'll be quiet.

By the way, "That sun sure is bright!" That's because she has taken to opening the drapes a bare 1 and 1/2 feet wide so it is like a dark cave in here. Today I had opened them all the way, but how many times do you have to hear "it sure is bright", before you grudgingly close the drapes some. SOME! Welp, I compromised and have it so each half of the draperies are open, giving us about 5 feet of light from outdoors. As the sun sets, it shines in the door, which is directly across the room from the sofa where I sit. When it shines in my face, it is generally only for 5 minutes or less, until the sun moves behind some trees, and though Nannie tries her best to get me to close the drapes so the sun won't be shining on me, I say, "It'll be out of my face in a minute." And the minute dusk even THINKS of descending, she is already saying "it sure is DARK outside." NOT EVEN CLOSE TO DARK, NANNIE! ( I don't say)

Hubby says she is afraid of "Bloody-Bones". But, she really does think that there are 'people' out there trying to look at her! (How boring would THAT be, looking at Nannie squinting at the TV or closing her eyes and dozing off ?!?!) Nobody ever goes through our yard. Just squirrels and deer, and one groundhog who has taken up residence under the shed. I haven't decided on the groundhogs name yet, but I'll let ya know when I do.

No Stars In My Eyes · Oct 5, 2022

To be clear, I did wash all of her bedding one day, the next day she did not get the bedding wet, and then the day after that is when I just dried the sheets and remade the bed. This AM the bedding was dry.

When I re-read my post it didn't sound clear to me and I didn't want ya to think I just remake the bed after I run everything through the dryer. I just did it that once. Which is not to say I might not do it again, in certain circumstances, but fortunately the chux keeps the mattress dry!

Anyway, just sayin' ------------

nursej22, MSN, RN · Oct 5, 2022

Woo Hoo, I'm on vacation! Yes, it's true I only work 20 hours a week, but I don't have to go back to the office until the 26th. And I have been so irritable that it's probably safer for all concerned that I will be out. This morning's work was short and sweet: an hour online meeting, read a couple of tuberculin skin tests, called a couple of clients, and set up my email to tell people I would be out of the office. I went down by the harbor for a jog, and it was beautiful with the leaves starting to turn. Tomorrow I am having a cardio version, Friday I will pick up my new glasses, and I need to craft a shopping list for our camping trip that starts next Tuesday.

A couple of cars ago, I was driving a sweet little Pontiac Sunbird that was a 5-speed, so I always set the handbrake. Dh was used to driving an automatic. Once, after he drove my car, he parked it in the garage, cuz it was snowy. I started it, to let it warm up to drive to my midnight shift. I started back in the house, and then realized my car was rolling out of the garage, because someone hadn't set the brake! I chased it out to the drive way and leapt in!

No Stars In My Eyes · Oct 5, 2022

Maybe he tells me I don't need to set the brake because my KIA soul is an automatic. There are still times, after all these years of driving automatics, I STILL want to change gears at a stop sign. I drove manual transmissions between 1980 and 2015, and I much prefer driving a stickshift because I feel it gives me better control. However, since the gypsies arrived, I decided that shifting gears might tempt them to throw protests in various involved joints, so I bought an automatic even though I was drooling about a 5-speed. Bah!

nursej22, MSN, RN · Oct 6, 2022

I so miss driving a stick shift, especially on wind-y mountain roads and in the snow. I test drove a BRZ (Subaru's sports car), and loved it, but got a Impreza because it was more practical. Eldest ds used to have an Audi A4 and it was amazing. When did I get so conventional?